The children : how to study them : a course of lectures / by Francis Warner.

  • Francis Warner
Date:
1887
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Credit: The children : how to study them : a course of lectures / by Francis Warner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Third class, seen 1885. Twenty-nine boys present at a lecture on geometry, 2.30 o’clock. No questions were asked, and the lesson proceeded as usual; I observed the boys during the lecture, first from the master’s desk, afterwards from a side table so as to get a good profile view. This group of boys appeared generally healthy and well. As I looked at each boy at his desk, eight of them attracted my attention :— A, B.—Two used spectacles. C, D.—Two did not use spectacles, but appeared to be short-sighted. E, F.—Two showed some developmental defects. G, H.—Two appeared somewhat exhausted in the nerve-system, and are likely to be sub- ject to headaches ; this is probably not a temporary condition. No detailed examination of individual boys was made, but the grounds of the opinion given in the cases of E, F and G, H may be stated. E, F showed no signs of brain exhaustion or of headaches. The following signs of defective development are probably of long standing, or from birth. E. One of the biggest boys in the class; he must weigh heavy, and speaks with a loud voice. As signs of defective development I observed that the ears were ill-shapen, the head too round in form, and wanting in characteristic points. As a sign of defect (probably permanent) in the nerve-system, there was excessive and coarse action of the muscles in the forehead, causing horizontal and vertical furrows. Evidence that he was not exhausted was seen in the symmetry of nerve-muscular action on the two sides
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